the defense has to be a big reduction, too, and we need to not only reduce our defense spending, but we need to reduce the number of missions. what we are using our defense capabilities for. many of the countries where we have troops are countries that are well able to defend themselves and they are good friends of the united states. germany is a good ally, japan is a good ally. we still have master forces and their dating back to world war ii. it makes no sense whatsoever. whether you get into the bayonets of the horses are the aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines or whatever, you know, the navy at this point is just about power production. it is not clear that we need to be protecting our power everywhere in the world for that we need to be fighting undeclared wars on five continents. basically on all continents, including this one if you count the drug war and everything we have done in central and south america. you know, supposedly fighting drugs. we need to really rethink how much we want to intervene and how much we want our noses in other people's business. someone doing tha